(BBC) The home secretary has rejected calls from the family of MP Sir David Amess for a public inquiry into his murder.
In a letter addressed to Lady Julia Amess and Katie Amess, Yvette Cooper said it was “hard to see how an inquiry would be able to go beyond” killer Ali Harbi Ali’s trial and recently published Prevent learning review.
Katie Amess, daughter of Sir David, said Cooper’s words were “adding salt on to an open wound,” branding them “unacceptable” and “insulting.”
Sir David, the Conservative MP for Southend West, was stabbed to death by Ali, a fanatic of so-called Islamic State, at a constituency surgery on 15 October 2021.
